Connecticut College - Koine Yearbook (New London, CT)

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e OFFICERS President ; . Julia Warner Vice-President Katharine Francke Secretary . Dorothy Hubbard Treasurer : Emily Slaymaker Historian : . Ethel Kane Cheer Leader . Elizabeth Moyle Juninr Year SEPTEMBER, 1921Junior Class has serious Attack of Pride. The Freshmen have arrived, been discussed, been passed upon as an entirely fitting and proper sister class for '23. JANUARY, 1922The New Year brings the Juniors a new honorfor their Banquet, they and their greatly-superior Honorary Members require the main Mohican Dining Room. Here the result of great strainings of the master Junior Minds is shown to their sister class and to the Sopho- moresthe Sphinx Mascotthe symbol of their wisdom and silence. FEBRUARYThe Juniors prove that it is brains and superior years and not violent agitations at night in atties and cellars and wells that really count. They keep their mascot sage unto themselves even unto the very end. . MARCH'23 becomes a bit audaciousperhaps because of her glorious career thus far. Senior privileges are announced! The Juniors, in gay abandon, flap their arctics, but quite without malice. The forty-three Seniors scowl their fiercest, snort their loudest and hold a meeting. The Junior ankles immediately shiver in their open foot gear. The Juniors stoop very lowly and closely clasp those galoshes around those cold, slim ankles. APRIL AND MAYThe Juniors are quiet with a quietness suggestive of calm before a stormin June they will be Seniors! 19

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BT Dorothy Randle 3 z 7 l Emily Slaymaker . . . . . Christine Pickett Ruth Wells E A . i . Marian Johnson 5 4 2 g . Caroline Francke 5 3 7 i . Elizabeth Moyle Sophomore Year r we came back with a feeling of extreme insignificance. As Freshmen we red the world but now we were dethroned by a horde of good-looking, well- oung persons with coiffures higher and wavier than any we had ever met. anners were equally high! We gave them a chance to more fully reveal their che the true Pickfordian manner, making the reservation that the aforementioned be 1ied to two braids, lest they prove too alluring. After that we felt better, and 6vb'fgf:i'i1933,5111 33 grew daily, until, with the rescue of '23's goatbless his whisker that the world was once more ours. 1 came the Sophomore Hop. We frolicked among our pine-trees like the nymphs de. Yea, verily, we introduced toddling! But then, do nymphs toddle? filled our hearts with the greatest joy was the discovery of a latent leaning letecting. We steered our number sevens carefully among the beams and every edifice. We forced our one-and-a-half double A's through many mystic With a truly professional air we cast a keen and roving eye over the campus h our accustomed unerring accuracy we accomplished the greatest triumph of . We unearthed the Junior totem-pole. -the spring comes and our chest assmen ! S continue to expand. Next year we will be 18

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OFFICERS President AL Alice Holcombe Vice-President . Emily Slaymaker Secretary . Mary Langenbacher Treasurer . . Bernice Boynton Historian . . Caroline Francke Cheer Leader . . Helen Barkerding Seninr Year erimenting with the exact elevation of the eyebrow calculated academic cap, and the exact pose of the head guaranteed to tonsils from an undue pressure of the starched collar, we as- fficial robes and our official dignity. We learned to be properly still maintain the correct angle of our head-gear. When we olley it was with the expression of the Prince of Wales jour- ugh the inland kingdoms of India. People did not salaam, but des offering us seats. And we accepted, placidly. he hectic enthusiasms of our first year we painstakingly evolved blending of gentle feminine dignity, and brisk intelligent effi- every college woman strives for! 20